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Mysterious Providence

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 12, 1863

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 21, No. 24.

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Mysterious Providence.

ONE man sucks an orange, and is choked by a pit; another swallows a penknife and lives; one runs a thorn into his hand, and no skill can save him; another has a shaft of a gig driven completely through his body, and recovers; one is overturned on a smooth common and breaks his neck; another is tossed out of a gig over Brighton Cliff and survives; one walks out on a windy day and meets death by a brickbat; another is blown up in the air, like Lord Hatton in Guernsey Castle, and comes down uninjured. The escape of this nobleman was indeed a miracle. An explosion of gunpowder, which killed his mother, wife, and some of his children, and many other persons, and blew up the whole fabric of the castle, lodged him in his bed on a wall overhanging a tremendous precipice. "Perceiving a mighty disorder, (as well he might) he was going to step out of his bed to know what the matter was, which if he had done, he had been irrevocably lost; but in the instant of his moving a flash of lightning came and showed him the precipice, whereupon he lay still till people came and took him down."—Sel.